How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 13
If all human time were one day, writing would appear at about 11:35 at night and electric light at home in the last minute.
Who acts: human time, writing · What happens: be, appear · To what, where: one day, 11:35
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (human time, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 day | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det |
| 3 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appear | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 9 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appear | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 appear | aux |
| 11 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 11:35 | case |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 11:35 | advmod |
| 14 | 11:35 | 11:35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 appear | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 11:35 | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 light | cc |
| 18 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 light | amod |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 night | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 light | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 minute | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 minute | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 minute | amod |
| 25 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 home | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | all human time | one day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | would | writing | 11:35 at night and electric light at home in the last minute | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 11:35=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:13.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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